We've been busy since the holidays recording and producing a bunch of new My Exit shows. My Exit is where the listener is the DJ. Would you like to be a My Exit DJ? Click here to send email . Here's the schedule of the upcoming My Exit programs. 2/19 John Schaefer Media & marketing guru, and former pop and college radio DJ, John Schaefer, picked an eclectic array of songs that have meant a lot to him as he rediscovers his passion for finding new music.

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From March 11th through the 18th, we will celebrate the biggest one-hit wonders of the ages. We’ll start with the first charted rock and roll songs and come right up to within the past few years. We decided to hold off on ones from 2010 forward as we’re not sure the artist is done just yet. The artist might still have another hit.

I gotta say I had a bit of a hard time holding it together during this session. Sitting in a room two feet away from Glen Hansard as he plays an acoustic guitar is transcendent. When we were talking, he was this warm, gregarious storyteller, but as soon as he started to sing, Glen summoned so much force and conviction and blood, that I forgot there was anything else in the entire world. And you'll hear that in my reactions.

Amid a ceaseless stream of horrors recounted via push notification, inner turmoil takes a backseat to personal survival. And sometimes, survival requires not caring about anything, at least for a little while. But there's a cost.